January 28 marked the first stage of an 18-month journey for a new group of MBA students at the Stockholm School of Economics. 53 participants are enrolled in the SSE MBA Executive Format 2019 program, an intense learning experience that prepares them to build, lead and develop organizations. The program is designed for working professionals who, with the support of their employers, work full-time while pursuing their degrees.

The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) has strengthened its innovation profile by launching the House of Innovation, a new interdisciplinary research, education and outreach environment. The House focuses on research and teaching within innovation, digitalization and entrepreneurship, and is made possible through one of the largest single donations to SSE to date: The Erling-Persson Family Foundation is supporting the new initiative with SEK 150 million.

Torsdag 31 januari gästas Score av Lars Engwall, professor emeritus vid Företagsekonomiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet, som presenterar boken "Corporate governance in action: Regulators, Market Actors, And Scrutinizerst”. Välkommen!

Yamlaksira Getachew from the Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles is the winner of this year’s Gunnar Hedlund award for his PhD thesis “Institutional Voids Investment Purposes, and Foreign Subsidiaries of Multinational Enterprises”

The new book Managing Hybrid Organizations.Governance, Professionalism and Regulation is edited by Susanna Alexius and Staffan Furusten.

Den klassiska bildningstanken borde få större utrymme i universitetsvärlden. Kulturen tar oss till platser dit fakta och vetenskap inte når. Och det är kanske dags för den nya regering som tillräder i dag att slå ihop kulturen och forskningen i ett departement, skriver Lars Strannegård.

Erik Wetter at House of Innovation and Misum has been invited as a speaker in the Ministerial Programme at the 2019 Mobile World Congress (MWC Barcelona) on February 26-28, where he will be discussing 'Insights for Innovation'.

Congratulations to Professor Jungsuk Han whose paper “The Paradox of Financial Fire Sales: The Role of Arbitrage Capital in Determining Liquidity”, written with James Dow, was awarded Brattle Distinguished Paper Prize.

Prince Daniel visited SSE Business Lab last week and had the chance to meet with the start-ups that the business incubator is hosting at present.

Invitation and call for papers.